Duan Shuyun stood up helplessly and said, "Master, how could there be no dealings?"
"Have you forgotten the Immortal Academy Hall behind our Fairy Cloud Peak? Quite a few clan disciples came there, and they paid real silver and gold to study!"
"Tuition for a single semester started at 20,000 Spirit Stones. Add lodging and meals, arranging cultivation grounds—wasn't all of that money?"
"And Liuxi even made a special trip to deal with those relatively close and active noble families, doing transport and stability-maintenance business in the nearby city-states."
"Put it in the secular world, and it was about the same as an escort agency, all for important goods!"
"Wan Qing's side also used the Zhao Family's influence to market the pills Qingqiu developed. When doing promotions, besides talking strategy, you always had to interact with the prominent figures from each region!"
"Interaction required favors, and favors weren't spoken into existence with your mouth, they were smashed out with money. So for Fairy Cloud Peak, that was our own family background!"
"The account book in your hand only recorded expenditures. The profit returns were in this return-ledger."
Mu Liuxi silently handed the account book over.
Meng Yutong still refused to believe it and opened it to look.
[Jiangbing City Sun Family · three thousand jade artifacts from Ruan City, transported to Xu River in the Eastern Continent. Participating disciples: Zhang Daoming, Fang Ruiqing, Lin Tingchun... return: 3,100 Spirit Stones!] [Purple Firmament City · Wealth-Gathering Winery promoted 1,000 Bull-Bull Pills, return: 5,000 Spirit Stones!] [Yongzhou City · Mine collapse buried over a thousand people, helped the merchant association transport mining equipment... return: 1,000 Spirit Stones!] [...]
Listed above, clear as day, were the transaction dealings with the various noble families, along with the